What Did You Want to Be?

I wanted to be a professional fisherman when I was young.

Before you were told college was the only means to a well-paying job (not true), a career in medicine or law was the only way to be rich (not true), and the best way to be financially secure was to find an employer that pays into retirement (again, not true), what did you want to be?

Me? Fisherman.
You?

Our youthful innocence is not merely the absence of “responsibility” or “reality”, it’s also the presence of an untainted sense of self—without fear, insecurity, and material obsession.

Fishing is not necessarily what I should be doing as an adult.

It may have been metaphor. Or symbolic.
It may have been a conceptual suggestion.
It also may have been literal… and only a couple degrees off because the world has evolved.

In it, however, is a kernel of timeless insight.
In it is transcendent substance.
In it is a reflection of your soul.

What is it that you wanted to be?